linux-ext4 - Re: Error testing ext3 on brd ramdisk

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Date:	Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:35:11 +0200
From:	Denis Karpov <ext-denis.2.karpov@...ia.com>
To:	ext Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	"ext Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@...2.net>,
	"Hunter Adrian (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" <adrian.hunter@...ia.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Error testing ext3 on brd ramdisk

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 02:42:02PM +0100, ext Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:40:19AM +0200, Denis Karpov wrote:
> > Jan's fixes are here:
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=123731584711382&w=2
> > It would be interesting to try them, and if they don't work maybe
> > he's also interested so I cc'ed him.

Hello, 

I've re-run the tests (with Jan's patches and also Nick's "fs: new inode
i_state corruption fix" patch).

> > > In both cases I saw some complains from JBD/JBD2:
> > >  JBD: Detected IO errors while flushing file data on
>   Yes, my patches fix exactly this problem. So please try running with
> them. I'm not sure about that HTREE corruption you see during fsck. That
> seems to be a separate issue.

The issue with JBD seems to be gone. But problem with HTREE being corrupted
still remains (see attached logs).

Denis

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